Saw it tonight. I give it a B, but if I hadn’t read the book first, I’d probably give it a strong A. It’s three hours long, but that time flies by. The film barely stops, which you can understand inasmuch as they’ve got a hell of a lot of plot to get through. “The Two Towers” was my favorite of the trilogy, in part because I absolutely loved the Ents, and their world. There are Ents here, of course, but they get very short shrift. I realized while watching the movie that my favorite parts of the book were the poetic moments, when I was able to relax and take in the wondrously imaginative world Tolkien had created. In the film, it’s all go, go, go — which still makes for a pretty impressive film, but I could have used less action and more thought. If it sounds like I’m having trouble criticizing the movie, well, I am; I’m knocked flat by the fact that a movie version of “The Two Towers” that looks as good as this one got made. I think it only disappoints when compared to the book, a comparison as unfair as it is inevitable.